Location Milton Keynes, GB Department Name Route Services About Network Rail Join Our Team at Network Rail Are you ready to make a difference in people's lives? At Network Rail, we connect passengers and freight customers, ensuring safe and efficient transportation across the country. We're an organisation where people truly matter, and when you join us, you matter to us and millions of others. Click here to watch our inspiring video to learn more about us We're dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that reflects the passengers we serve. To achieve this, we're committed to becoming an open, diverse, and inclusive workplace, leveraging the skills and expertise of our talented workforce. Together, we strive to create a safe and accessible railway for everyone. Discover more about the importance of Diversity and Inclusion at Network Rail by clicking here. Investing in our people is key to enhancing the safety, reliability, and efficiency of our railway system. If you're passionate about making a meaningful impact, then this opportunity is for you About our people and the recruitment process - We're an inclusive employer of choice and we welcome applications from everyone We encourage our colleagues to work flexibly, as we know traditional working patterns don't always fit. If you want to consider working flexibly, just let us know and we'll do our best to help and invest in your career with us, whilst you have a healthy work life balance. We're also a Disability Confident Leader employer and we'll try our best to adapt the process and offer a reasonable alternative to help support people with disabilities access, apply and interview for roles. Brief Description Vacancy Type: Full-time but flexible working patterns will be considered. Duration: 12 month secondment or fixed term contract with the potential to be extended Salary: Band 2B (£71,163 - £80,060) Location: The Quadrant: MK Interview Dates: W/c 2nd December 2024 About The Role (External) Are you a sourcing superstar with extensive experience in complex projects and leading a team? If so, we want you This role sits in Route Services, a business area that has been created to supply services to our front-line teams and corporate business functions in the safest, most efficient, and effective way. We are looking for a dynamic procurement professional with extensive procurement experience in defining and delivering high value and complex sourcing projects, working to support our our property stakeholders digital, data and technology stakeholders at Director and C-suite level. Working collaboratively with the other strategic sourcing managers within technology, the role is fast paced and entails: the sourcing of business and operational networks the sourcing of IT hardware, software, cloud services, data services, delivery and professional services and artificial intelligence (AI) and internet of things (IoT)) capabilities. the sourcing of R&D services and innovation management of the sourcing pipeline engagement with the cabinet office where the relevant spend controls apply If you love to engage with your customers, thrive on using your own initiative, have great people management skills and are passionate about making a difference, please read on. We’re a team of over 20 practitioners, with a great team ethos of supporting and developing each other. We enjoy regular team events together combining an element of learning as well as enjoying each other’s company. You’ll work closely with your customers and our business subject matter experts to undertake pre-market engagement with the supply chain, draft sourcing strategies and tender documentation. You’ll be the expert in delivering sourcing projects and undertaking complex commercial evaluations, including using your professional knowledge to lead negotiations with suppliers. You will have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, be proactive, have in depth experience of the end-to-end procurement process in the public sector, be happy to challenge and be challenged and be prepared to go above and beyond to support our customers. Understanding your customer’s needs will put you in the best place to identify the optimum strategic direction and put in place contracting strategies that embrace change, innovation and creative thinking. We want you to bring us new ideas to help us: improve safety – everyone home safe every day; be more sustainable; be more efficient – financially and programme management; introduce innovation from our supply chain; and provide creative contracting strategies. To help you find out more about the role we have created a candidate pack, linked below, which gives you an insight into what it’s like to work at Network Rail including our purpose, our culture and values, pay and benefits, learning and development and how we create an inclusive environment for all. And hear what some of our brilliant team members think about Network Rail in this video For full details of what you’ll be doing and the skills and experience you’ll need, please see the attached job description. Do you consider yourself to have a protected characteristic? If so and you require any additional support with your application, please do not hesitate to contact the Resourcer who will happily assist Click ‘apply for this job’ to apply. If you would like to speak the Resourcing Team, please contact Emily.Smith3networkrail.co.uk Accountable for leading the sourcing delivery of business critical and medium to high spend opportunities, working in collaboration with the relevant Strategic Category and Supplier Managers, customers and stakeholders. Sound interested? This is what you will need to have: Essential Experience of IT procurement Educated to a degree standard or equivalent and MCIPS qualified (or equivalent professional body with chartered status) Significant Sourcing experience with a demonstrable track record of savings delivery within an infrastructure or engineering environment Line management experience Solution driven, innovator, cost and value led Proven level of negotiation and dispute resolution skill set Experience with cross-functional collaborative working methods Politically aware, with the ability to use direct and indirect influencing strategies Demonstrable level of problem-solving experience and in large, complex organisations Desirable Experience of Cabinet Office Technology Spend Controls Detailed knowledge of the UK Rail Industry, including procurement processes in a reclassified environment For more information regarding the main responsibilities & criteria of this role, please find the full job description attached below. How To Apply (External) Closing date: 18th November 2024. - Late applications will not be accepted. Click apply now to apply. This is a 12 month fixed term contract opportunity with the potential to be extended For this role you need to live within 75/90 minutes of The Quadrant in Milton Keynes. You can visit Evenbreaks Career Hive for advice on accessibility support if you're unsure of the options available. Should you require any reasonable adjustments/modifications, please add a note to your application. Network Rail Benefits - To find out about what benefits we offer, click here All offers of employment are conditional upon satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks. Click here for more information